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David Brophy, “Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier” (Harvard UP, 2016)
68 hours 25 mins; July 13, 2016
Per Anders Rudling, “The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931” (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2015)
70 hours 34 mins; May 23, 2016
Valerie Sperling, “Sex, Politics and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia” (Oxford UP, 2015)
59 mins; May 23, 2016
Adeeb Khalid, “Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR” (Cornell UP, 2015)
55 mins; April 27, 2016
Timothy Nunan, “Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
79 hours 58 mins; April 08, 2016
Eileen M. Kane, “Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
35 mins; March 04, 2016
Guntis Smidchens, “The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution” (University of Washington Press, 2014)
65 hours 3 mins; December 18, 2015
David E. Hoffman’s “The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal” (Doubleday, 2015)
54 mins; November 15, 2015
David Frick, “Kith, Kin and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in 17th-Century Wilno” (Cornell UP, 2013)
66 hours 38 mins; October 09, 2015
Alexander Etkind, “Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied” (Stanford UP, 2013)
50 mins; July 26, 2015
David R. Stone, “The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917” (UP of Kansas, 2015)
45 mins; June 12, 2015
John-Paul Himka and Joanna Beata Michlic, “Bringing the Dark Past to Light” (U of Nebraska Press, 2013)
72 hours 38 mins; April 29, 2015
Bilyana Lily, “Russian Foreign Policy toward Missile Defense” (Lexington Books, 2014)
36 mins; February 03, 2015
Thane Gustafson, “Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia” (Harvard UP, 2014)
26 mins; January 20, 2015
Jenny Kaminer, “Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture” (Northwestern UP, 2014)
51 mins; January 20, 2015
Alexander Cooley, “Great Game, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia” (Oxford UP, 2014)
46 mins; November 11, 2014
Angela Stent, “The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twentieth-First Century” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
76 hours 53 mins; November 03, 2014
Oliver Ready (trans.), Vladimir Sharov, “Before and During” (Dedalus Books, 2014)
58 mins; September 30, 2014
Willard Sunderland, “The Baron’s Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution” (Cornell UP, 2014)
67 hours 55 mins; September 04, 2014
Katherine Pickering Antonova, “An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia” (Oxford UP, 2012)
57 mins; August 17, 2014
Ivo Mijnssen, “The Quest for an Ideal Youth in Putin’s Russia I” (Ibidem Press, 2014)
46 mins; August 12, 2014
Edmund Levin, “A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia” (Schocken, 2014)
67 hours 41 mins; July 13, 2014
Filip Slaveski, “The Soviet Occupation of Germany” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
70 hours 29 mins; July 02, 2014
Sener Akturk, “Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey (Cambridge UP, 2012)
65 hours 37 mins; June 11, 2014
Anne Gorsuch, “All This is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad After Stalin” (Oxford UP, 2011)
44 mins; May 22, 2014
Anna Fishzon, “Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera: Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-Siecle Russia” (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013)
55 mins; April 17, 2014
Olga Gershenson, “The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe” (Rutgers UP, 2013)
73 hours 6 mins; February 05, 2014
Waitman Beorn, “Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus” (Harvard UP, 2013)
78 hours 23 mins; January 10, 2014
Denis Kozlov, “Novyi Mir: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past” (Harvard UP, 2013)
42 mins; December 20, 2013
Peter Savodnik, “The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union” (Basic Books, 2013)
56 mins; November 21, 2013
Steven Usitalo, “The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov: A Russian National Myth” (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
60 hours 22 mins; October 13, 2013
Robert Gellately, “Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War” (Knopf, 2013)
76 hours 56 mins; October 05, 2013
Kate Brown, “Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters” (Oxford UP, 2013)
55 mins; September 11, 2013
Kees Boterbloem, “Moderniser of Russia: Andrei Vinius, 1641-1716” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
64 hours 23 mins; September 07, 2013
Wendy Z. Goldman, “Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin’s Russia” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
54 mins; September 02, 2013
Donald J. Raleigh, “Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia’s Cold War Generation” (Oxford UP, 2012)
47 mins; August 22, 2013
John Earl Haynes, et al., “Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America” (Yale UP, 2009)
61 hours 45 mins; July 10, 2013
Ben Judah, “Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin” (Yale UP, 2013)
56 mins; May 27, 2013
Barbara Engel, “Breaking the Ties that Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia” (Cornell UP, 2011)
60 hours 16 mins; April 10, 2013
Vladimir Alexandrov, “The Black Russian” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013)
56 mins; April 03, 2013
Eric Lohr, “Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union” (Harvard UP, 2012)
60 hours 19 mins; March 05, 2013
Louis Menashe, “Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and Their Movies” (New Academia, 2010)
68 hours 59 mins; February 15, 2013
William Risch, “The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv” (Harvard UP, 2011)
63 hours 19 mins; January 11, 2013
Meredith Roman, “Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of US Racism, 1928-1937” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)
55 mins; December 21, 2012
Michael Gordin, “The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
61 hours 49 mins; December 19, 2012
Frank Ellis, “The Damned and the Dead: The Eastern Front through the Eyes of Soviet and Russian Novelists” (University Press of Kansas, 2011)
53 mins; December 05, 2012
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, “Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia” (Harvard University Press, 2012)
64 hours 23 mins; December 05, 2012
Russell Martin, “A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage in Early Modern Russia” (NIU Press, 2012)
67 hours 51 mins; November 29, 2012
Dan Healey, “Bolshevik Sexual Forensics: Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917-1939” (Northern Illinois UP, 2009)
84 hours 21 mins; November 26, 2012
Douglas Smith, “Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
53 mins; October 27, 2012
David Brandenberger, “Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin” (Yale UP, 2011)
59 mins; October 03, 2012
Mark Steinberg, “St. Petersburg: Fin de Siecle” (Yale UP, 2011)
62 hours 38 mins; September 18, 2012
Matthew Lenoe, “The Kirov Murder and Soviet History” (Yale University Press, 2010)
85 hours 7 mins; July 18, 2012
Stephen Collier, “Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics” (Princeton UP, 2011)
77 hours 5 mins; June 20, 2012
Richard Sakwa, “The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism, and the Medvedev Succession” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
61 hours 40 mins; May 17, 2012
Melissa Caldwell, “Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia’s Countryside” (University of California Press, 2010)
59 mins; May 15, 2012
Anna Krylova, “Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front” (Cambridge UP, 2010)
85 hours 6 mins; April 27, 2012
Karen Petrone, “The Great War in Russian Memory” (Indiana UP, 2012)
55 mins; April 20, 2012
Stephen White, “Understanding Russian Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
66 hours 50 mins; April 09, 2012
Francis Spufford, “Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the Fifties Soviet Dream” (Greywolf Press, 2012)
65 hours 19 mins; March 30, 2012
Jan Plamper, “The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power” (Yale UP, 2012)
59 mins; March 22, 2012
Jeffrey Mankoff, “Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011)
60 hours 37 mins; March 15, 2012
Jeff Sahadeo, “Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865-1903” (Indiana UP, 2010)
68 hours 21 mins; March 08, 2012
Michael David-Fox, “Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941” (OUP, 2011)
70 hours 51 mins; January 27, 2012
Artemy Kalinovsky, “A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan” (Harvard UP, 2011)
65 hours 50 mins; January 16, 2012
Jarrod Tanny, “City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia’s Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa” (Indiana UP, 2011)
61 hours 24 mins; December 09, 2011
Frank Wcislo, “Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915” (Oxford UP, 2011)
83 hours 14 mins; December 02, 2011
Rosamund Bartlett, “Tolstoy: A Russia Life” (Houghton Mifflin, 2011)
84 hours 35 mins; November 04, 2011
Andrew Gentes, “Exile, Murder, and Madness in Siberia, 1823-1861” (Palgrave, 2010)
66 hours 8 mins; October 17, 2011
Vera Tolz, “Russia’s Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods” (Oxford UP, 2011)
68 hours 25 mins; October 05, 2011
Steven Barnes, “Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society” (Princeton UP, 2011)
73 hours 47 mins; September 23, 2011
Rodric Braithwaite, “Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89” (Oxford UP, 2011)
66 hours 1 min; August 26, 2011
Jonathan Weiler, “Human Rights in Russia: A Darker Side of Reform” (Lynne Rienner, 2004)
62 hours 35 mins; August 25, 2011
Charles King, “Odessa: Genius and Death in the City of Dreams” (W.W. Norton, 2011)
58 mins; August 22, 2011
Louis Siegelbaum, “Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile” (Cornell UP, 2008)
62 hours 5 mins; July 22, 2011
Daniel Treisman, “The Return: Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev” (Free Press, 2011)
68 hours 53 mins; July 05, 2011
Maria Yatskova, “Miss Gulag” (Neihausen-Yatskova & Vodar Films, 2007)
41 mins; June 03, 2011
Charles Emmerson, “The Future History of the Arctic: How Climate, Resources and Geopolitics are Reshaping the North, and Why it Matters to the World” (Vintage, 2010)
56 mins; May 23, 2011
Douglas Rogers, “The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals” (Cornell UP, 2009)
65 hours 18 mins; May 17, 2011
Laurie Manchester, “Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia” (NI UP, 2008)
55 mins; April 24, 2011
Michael A. Reynolds, “Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-1918” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
67 hours 48 mins; April 22, 2011
Christopher Ward, “Brezhnev’s Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism” (Pittsburgh UP, 2009)
60 hours 9 mins; April 08, 2011
Thomas de Waal, “The Caucasus: An Introduction” (Oxford UP, 2010)
48 mins; March 25, 2011
Miriam Dobson, “Khrushchev’s Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform After Stalin” (Cornell UP, 2009)
53 mins; March 15, 2011
Kenneth Moss, “Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution” (Harvard UP, 2010)
76 hours 18 mins; March 10, 2011
Claudia Verhoeven, “The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism (Cornell UP, 2009)
56 mins; March 03, 2011
J. Arch Getty, “Ezhov: The Rise of Stalin’s Iron Fist” (Yale UP, 2008)
46 mins; February 23, 2011
David Shearer, “Policing Stalin’s Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953” (Yale UP, 2010)
67 hours 3 mins; December 10, 2010
Deborah Kaple, “Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir” (Oxford UP, 2010)
61 hours 36 mins; November 24, 2010
Abbott Gleason, “A Liberal Education” (TidePool Press, 2010)
82 hours 44 mins; October 28, 2010
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, “Russian Orientalism” (Yale UP, 2010)
61 hours 42 mins; October 08, 2010
Norman Naimark, “Stalin’s Genocides” (Princeton UP, 2010)
73 hours 40 mins; September 24, 2010
John Steinberg, “All the Tsar’s Men: Russia’s General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898-1914” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010)
71 hours 2 mins; July 09, 2010
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, “The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew” (Yale UP, 2009)
63 hours 58 mins; March 26, 2010
Charles King, “The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus” (Oxford UP, 2008)
71 hours 40 mins; March 05, 2010
Rebecca Manley, “To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War” (Cornell UP, 2009)
68 hours 58 mins; November 20, 2009
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